Rail brace



Nov. 13, 1923. 1,474,278 L. H. MAYVILLE v RAIL BRACE" Filed Jan. s, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 7 g y 0 F 2 INVENTOR WITNESS:

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L. H. MAYVILLE RAID BRACE Filed Jan. 8, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I .ZLEMJOV/7/6 INVENTOR ATTORN EY WITNESS:

an I l i I i Patented raov. is, 1923. a it tedentree stares earner time-e.

LOUIS H. MAYVILLE, F GRANITE HEIGHTS, WISCONSIN.

V RAIL BRACE.

Application filed January 8, 1923. Serial 1%.611341.

To all whom it may concern: correspond with the rounded outeredges of 7 Be it known that I, LOUIS H. MAYVILLE, a the base flanges of the rails. Each block at citizen of the United States, residing at is gradually widened from its top to its bot- Granite Heights, in the county of Marathon tom, its said widened bottom being formed 5 and State of lVisconsin, have invented new on a base plate 7 which extends outwardly and useful Improvements in Rail Braces, of and laterally in one direction from the which the following is a specification. block. The base plate 7 has an opening for The object of this invention is to produce a spike 8 that enters the tie 3. The laterally a simple, cheaply constructed but thorextending portion of the base plate 7 is, for 00 10 oughly efiicient means for holding the rails distinction indicated by the numeral 9, the of a railway track against tilting in an op same having a downturned flange 10 dis posite direction and for sustaining such posedin contacting engagement with a side rails in proper alignment. of the tie 3, the said flange being formed To the attainment of the foregoing and with a plate extension 11 having openings 65 other objects which will present themselves for spikes 13 that are driven into the side of as the nature of the invention is better unthe tie.

derstood, reference is to be had to the draw- With a construction as above described it ings which accompany and which form part will be apparent that outward bodily moveof this application. ment of the rails on their ties as well as out- To 2 In the drawings ward tilting of said'rails will be effectively Figure l is a plan view showing a rail prevented. To hold the rails from inward supported against outward movement and movement there may pass throughsuitable against tilting in accordance with this inbolt openings in the webs of the rails and vention. similar openings in the heads 4 of the brace Figure 2 is a sectional view von the line members bolts 14 engaged by nuts 15, but 2-2 of Figure 1. under ordinary conditions this last men- Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line tioned arrangement will not be found nec- 33 of Figure 1. essary.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the mem- In Figure 5 of the drawings, I have illusso her constituting the improvement. trated a slight modification. In the main Figure 5 is a similar view but illustrating the brace is similar to that above described a slight modification. except that the plate 17 formed on the flange Figure 6 is a sectional view similar to 18 of the head extension is notched, as at Figure 2, but illustrating the application of 19 or is otherwise provided with an upso the construction illustrated in Figure 5. standing lug, the distance between the shoul In the drawings the numerals 1 and 2 desder provided by the inner end of the flange ignate railway rails which rest on and are 17 and the said lug being equal to the width spiked to ties 3. of the base flange oi. the rail and inthis My improved rail braces are designed for manner the rail braceis provided with a no 4-0 contacting engagement with both of the pocket for the base flange of the rail.

rails l and 2, but the said braces are not or Having described the imiention I dinarily arranged opposite each other: claim 2- Each of the rail braces includes an angle The combination with railway rails and block 4 whose upper end is cut angularly as ties on which the rails rest and to which the 95 at 5. The blocks are of a length whereby rails are spilzech of brace members tor-the the angle ends 5 thereof will underlie the outer sides of the rails, each including head of a rail and will contact with the outer plate resting on a tie, spiked thereto and edge of the base flange of such rail. To having its inner edge in contacting engagemore effectively compensate for this latter ment with the outer edge of the base flange 10c engagement the lower edges of the blocks of the rail, said plate having a downturned are channeled, as at 6, the walls of which flange formed with a longitudinal entension which rests against and is spiked to the side of-the tie said plate having formed therewith an upwardly extending inwardly in clined block which decreases in thickness from its juncture with the plate to its outer edge and whose inner andslower; edge is channeled to provide a pocket for the "edge of the base flange of the rail, and whose reduced outer end is cut at an angle to receive the head of the rail thereon and to contact W With the Web of the rail at the juncture of its head therewith, and removable connecting means between the block and the web of the rail.

' In testimony whereof I'aflix my signature.

LOUIS H. MAYVILLE. 

